Meaning not yet researched.
Dinah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #488 in 1955.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #488 in 1955; #4,198 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dinah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,198 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1955, at #488.
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Dinah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #488 in 1955 · most girls in one year: 346 (1955).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Dinah, making it the 4,198th most common girls’ name of the year, down 287 places from #3,911 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 38 girls named Dinah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #488, reached in 1955. That year also had the most girls given the name: 346. For comparison, it was #2,896 in 2015 and #517 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dinah in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 10,509 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,903 babies named Dinah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 449 US girls were named Dinah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dina (32,097 babies since 1880), Deena (13,671 babies since 1880), Diana (369,771 babies since 1880) and Dena (32,535 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dinah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,198 | — | — |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,911 | — | — |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,843 | — | — |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,157 | — | — |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,682 | — | — |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,165 | — | — |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 2015 | 60 | #2,896 | — | — |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,089 | — | — |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,384 | — | — |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,428 | — | — |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,754 | — | — |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,896 | — | — |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 1999 | 71 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,685 | — | — |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1988 | 68 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 1979 | 85 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1978 | 69 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1976 | 81 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1975 | 98 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1973 | 78 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1972 | 97 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1971 | 91 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1970 | 103 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1969 | 91 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1968 | 91 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1967 | 88 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1966 | 123 | #910 | — | — |
| 1965 | 143 | #833 | — | — |
| 1964 | 173 | #788 | — | — |
| 1963 | 177 | #778 | — | — |
| 1962 | 208 | #716 | — | — |
| 1961 | 237 | #671 | — | — |
| 1960 | 295 | #574 | — | — |
| 1959 | 298 | #566 | — | — |
| 1958 | 332 | #529 | — | — |
| 1957 | 325 | #530 | — | — |
| 1956 | 333 | #513 | — | — |
| 1955 | 346 | #488 | — | — |
| 1954 | 270 | #540 | — | — |
| 1953 | 257 | #541 | — | — |
| 1952 | 257 | #531 | — | — |
| 1951 | 237 | #548 | — | — |
| 1950 | 248 | #517 | — | — |
| 1949 | 216 | #571 | — | — |
| 1948 | 190 | #607 | — | — |
| 1947 | 217 | #580 | — | — |
| 1946 | 188 | #583 | — | — |
| 1945 | 162 | #575 | — | — |
| 1944 | 188 | #530 | — | — |
| 1943 | 178 | #568 | — | — |
| 1942 | 142 | #633 | — | — |
| 1941 | 69 | #877 | — | — |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1937 | 35 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1914 | 27 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1905 | 15 | #976 | — | — |
| 1904 | 14 | #969 | — | — |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1900 | 24 | #747 | — | — |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1897 | 13 | #905 | — | — |
| 1896 | 13 | #912 | — | — |
| 1895 | 12 | #946 | — | — |
| 1894 | 11 | #961 | — | — |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1890 | 9 | #956 | — | — |
| 1889 | 15 | #664 | — | — |
| 1888 | 12 | #759 | — | — |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #917 | — | — |
| 1885 | 12 | #636 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #749 | — | — |
| 1883 | 9 | #659 | — | — |
| 1882 | 8 | #693 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #769 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).